Based on this week’s texts, the answers are as follows. It is said that pluralism focuses on many diverse roads leading to God, rather than there being a singular route, as in the faith of Christianity. Inclusivism has the belief that other religions may be able to be saved, even though not through Jesus Christ. Exclusivism regards one’s own religion as being the only true path to God. Miles writes that exclusivism is to “maintain on biblical and theological grounds that conscious faith in the gospel, defined as the good news of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ as anticipated, developed and presented in Holy Scripture, is necessary for salvation.”[1]
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This, in and of itself is an act of love. If there were not another choice, there would be forced worship, rather than willing and active adoration for our holy God. The emptiness of other religions can contribute to a saving faith and salvation of man. In the world one lives in, many seek for the one who saves, who heals, who restores, who creates. The world of the Old Testament was not far removed from the challenges of diverse religions. God’s people, the Israelites were prone to fall far from Him. Moses writes of a time to come for the nation “The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul” (NIV, Deuteronomy 4:27-29). Man then finds, as the Israelites did that natural religions of this world have no life, but death and is found by seeking for Him with all one’s heart. Life is found in knowing Christ Jesus. In the end, Netland writes, “Christian faith is not about religion at all; it is a relationship with the living God through Jesus
Christianity, being exclusive does not believe that other religions are …show more content…
This, in and of itself is an act of love. If there were not another choice, there would be forced worship, rather than willing and active adoration for our holy God. The emptiness of other religions can contribute to a saving faith and salvation of man. In the world one lives in, many seek for the one who saves, who heals, who restores, who creates. The world of the Old Testament was not far removed from the challenges of diverse religions. God’s people, the Israelites were prone to fall far from Him. Moses writes of a time to come for the nation “The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell. But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul” (NIV, Deuteronomy 4:27-29). Man then finds, as the Israelites did that natural religions of this world have no life, but death and is found by seeking for Him with all one’s heart. Life is found in knowing Christ Jesus. In the end, Netland writes, “Christian faith is not about religion at all; it is a relationship with the living God through Jesus